A Darth Vader look-alike demos the iPhone 3.0 beta software in this 2.5 minute video.

Dell has canceled its smartphone project in light of competition from RIM, Apple, and Palm. They’re looking at re-entering the market with something different.

Crime, at least on the web, does seem to pay according to security specialist at Finjan. The daily take is based on what researches calculated from 16 days of observing traffic on a scammer’s servers.

The United States has fallen behind in providing broadband access and wants to catch up. On April 8, the Federal Communications Commission will discuss an open “call for comment” to discuss the government’s role in providing broadband.

“Skype for SIP” is a new service from Skype to ease migration to its VoIP server over standard business and PBX systems using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The service is aimed at smaller businesses looking to save money on their phone bills.

Although it may seem like I spend all my time here at ZATZ, during my off-hours, I mentor students of the Medical Terminology course at the local community college. One student (let’s call her Rita) told me she was having a lot of trouble memorizing all of the terms. After I wrote her an email with some suggestions, I realized these study techniques could be applied to almost any course — and since tech is involved, would make a good topic for Computing Unplugged.

Read this Computing Unplugged article.

Scanning more than 10 million infected machines, researchers are trying to find Conficker’s first victim in an attempt to find where the worm originated.

ReMIND.org announced Tweet to ReMIND, a Twitter campaign to spread awareness and raise funds for injured U.S. service members. ReMIND.org and Porter Novelli ask Twitter users to register at TweetToReMIND.org for online event to take place over Memorial Day weekend (Friday, May 22, to Monday, May 25).

The Australian government has a list of almost 2,400 web pages it plans to permanently filter, according to WikiLeaks. Among the pages to be filtered: a Queensland dentist, a dog kennel, WikiLeaks pages, and poker sites.

Gmail is offering to save you from that “Oh no!” e-mail moment. “Undo Send” puts a 5-10 second delay on outgoing messages, enough time, hopefully, so you can correct an error before it occurs.